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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
— Edward Said
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The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an…
— Alice McDermott
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My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion…
— Carl Sagan
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Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she…
— Suzanne Braun Levine
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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and…
— Conrad Black
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The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming…
— Otep Shamaya
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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
— Zoe Lister-Jones
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I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
— Curt Schilling
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The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection
— Brandon Mull
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